Time line
The purpose of this table is to create a chronological index of events relevant to Kangaroo Island's history.
Date / Category / Event / Notes / Link
1770 Event - Australia Capt. James Cook landed eastern Australia in H.M.S. Endeavour
http://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/cook-claims-australia1788-01-26 Event - Australia First fleet of 11 ships arrives Sydney Cove Established the penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia.
http://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/convict-cargo1798 Event - Australia Flinders and Bass in the sloop Norfolk circumnavigated Van Diemen’s Land, proving it to be an island, and opening up a route to southern Australia
http://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/flinders-circumnavigates-australia1801–03 Event - Australia Matthew Flinders circumnavigates continent, which he names ‘Australia’
http://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/flinders-circumnavigates-australia1802-03-22 Ship HMS Investigator Matthew Flinders lands at Kanguroo Head (Christmas Cove)
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/encounter/collection/ocr_text/B12985211_263.htm1802-04-08 Event - KI Matthew Flinders (Investigator), Nicolas Baudin (Le Geographe) encounter each other in Encounter Bay
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/encounter/baudinsvoyage.htm1803 Ship Le Geographe (2nd visit) (January) Baudin circumnavigated K.I., Frenchman’s rock inscribed at Aise de Sources
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/encounter/baudinsvoyage.htm1803 Ship Union (for 4 months), captain Isaac Pendleton Independence built by American sealers based in American River.
https://www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/3325668/independence-boosts-american-river/1804 Event - Australia Foundation of Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, as a British colony
https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/landscape/settlement/display/70356-150-years-of-european-settlement1806 (approx) Event - KI "Joseph Murrell & 6 crew stranded" Sealers dropped off at the N.E. end of KI at Murrell’s Landing (Harvey’s Return)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6277251809 Ship Eliza Collects Murell + 2, returns to Port Jackson with skins
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6277251810 Ships Endeavour of Sydney, Endeavour of Norfolk Salt, seal skins
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6279641812 Ship Elizabeth and Mary collected KI salt, returned to Sydney in June
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6285001812 Ship Campbell Macquarie arrives Nepean Bay
https://sites.google.com/site/whowerethe1836ers/ships/ships-prior-to-18361813 BDM / Personal Henry Fifer, sealer, from "Elizabeth and Mary" (or "Campbell Macquarie"?) Still on KI 1817
- Hallett Shueard “Forgotten Men” 2013 page 218 http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/projects/counterpoints/Proc_2002/A9.htm1817 Ships Henrietta, Rosetta, Spring arrive Hobart with KI salt and skins
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6525301818 BDM / Personal ‘Governor’ Henry Wallen (aka Wallan) established a farm in the Cygnet River Valley
https://sites.google.com/site/kipaview/history/henry-wallan1818 (approx.) BDM / Personal Abyssinian Jack (John Anderson) sealer, reported as living on KI for 14 years
https://sites.google.com/site/kipaview/history/abyssian-jack1819 Ship Jupiter, Captain Ainswworth Salt and skins, C.Feen (Chief Officer) and Samuel Tomlins drowned at Bay of Shoals.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6561771819 Ship Governor Macquarie Captain Sutherland on Kangaroo Island (see 1831)
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/history/captain-sutherland-appraisal-of-kangaroo-island1820 Ship Little Mary, Captain James returns from KI to Sydney
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21793711824 BDM / Personal Nathaniel Walles Thomas from the brig Nereus Tasmanian aboriginal wife Betty
https://sites.google.com/site/kipaview/history/nathaniel-walles-thomas1824 BDM / Personal George ‘Fireball’ Bates, established a farm in Hog Bay
https://sites.google.com/site/kipioneers/first-8-ships/residents-already-on-kangaroo-island-1836/george-bates1826 Population "Upwards of 200 souls vegetating on this convenient spot. 30 men and 40 black women, independent of a numerous progeny, contrive to make themselves quite comfortable in their snug retreat."
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article370725861827 BDM / Personal Nathaniel Walles (Nat) Thomas established a farm at Creek Bay
http://sahistoryhub.com.au/places/kangaroo-island1827 Event - KI Major Lockyer reports on Kangaroo Islanders "'a complete set of pirates, ..., having their chief resort or den at Kangaroo Island,..
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article701638751830 Event - SA Charles Sturt explores Murray River
http://www.sahistorians.org.au/175/chronology/february/11-february-1830-charles-sturt---exploration-of-th.shtml1831 Event - Australia Captain Sutherland writes glowing account of his 1819 visit influencing the SA Coy to establish the capital on K.I.
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/history/captain-sutherland-appraisal-of-kangaroo-island1831-04-29 Event - SA Collett Barker killed by natives Murray Mouth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collet_Barker1831-12-20 Ship - Elizabeth, Capt John Hart, Nepean Bay
1834 BDM / Personal George Meredith (later murdered) Aboriginal wives Big Sal and Suke.
http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/projects/counterpoints/Proc_2002/A9.htm1834-08-15 Event - World South Australia Act (1834) passed by British Parliament
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australia_Act_18341835 Ship William, cutter, William Thompson disembarks and joins Waller
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article908682751836-02-19 Event - World Letters Patent enabling the South Australian Act establishing the Province of South Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_Patent_establishing_the_Province_of_South_Australia1836-06-14 Event - SA Capt John Hindmarsh received commission as governor of SA
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hindmarsh-sir-john-13151836-07-27 Ship Duke of York arrives Nepean Bay
http://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com1836-07-30 Ship Lady Mary Pelham arrives Nepean Bay
https://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/1836-08-19 Ship John Pirie arrives Nepean Bay
https://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/1836-08-20 Ship Rapid arrives Nepean Bay
http://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com1836-09-11 Ship Cygnet arrives Nepean Bay
https://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/1836-09-24 BDM / Personal Samuel Stephens, Charlotte Beare married aboard the John Pirie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Stephens_(Colonial_Manager) \1836-09-27 Ship John Pirie departs Kingscote headed for Hobart Town to collect supplies.
Hobart Town Courier, 9 December 1836, p21836-10-05 Ship Emma arrives Nepean Bay
https://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/1836-11-04 Ship Africaine arrives Nepean Bay
https://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/1836-11-07 BDM / Personal John Rapid Hoare birth Rapid Bay
https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=dukeofyork&view=0&pid=808&randi=376643266&switch=01836-11-20 Ship Tam O'Shanter arrives Nepean Bay
https://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/1836-12-24 Event - SA Buffalo arrives Port Lincoln
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1836Buffalo.htm1836-12-28 Event - SA Buffalo arrives Holdfast Bay
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1836Buffalo.htm1836-12-28 Event - SA Proclamation of the commencement of the colonial government at Glenelg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_Day1837 Event - SA David MacLaren Manager, SA Coy to 1841
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mclaren-david-24121837-01-12 Ship Coromandel Arrives Nepean Bay, and stayed about 3 days
http://www.slsa.ha.sa.gov.au/bsa/1837Coromandel.htm1837-01-16 Ship William Hutt arrives Nepean Bay from London, went aground, one passenger Matthew Peary PIESSE, departs 22 Jan 1837 for Holdfast Bay. The same year Matthew married Margaret Eliza CLARK(E) who arrived a little earlier on the Africaine.
http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/node/9450601837-02-?? BDM / Personal Jeremiah Calnan (Africaine) dies at sea Encounter Bay
https://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=dukeofyork&view=0&pid=4&ver=869331837-02-07 Ship John Renwick arrives Nepean Bay
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article545679161837-03-05 Ship John Pirie departs Kangaroo Island bound for Hobart Town for more supplies.
1837-03-09 BDM / Personal Lucy Beare nee Loose dies, burial Pioneers Cemetery
https://sites.google.com/view/first8ships/duke-of-york/beare-thomas-hudson1837-04-22 Ship South Australian arrives Nepean Bay en route to Holdfast Bay
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2459319741837-05 Ship Regia from Sydney to Adelaide
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article368583871837-05 Ship Lord Hobart from the Cape, with cattle, to Pt Adelaide
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article368583871837-05-04 Ship Schah (Shah) en route to Holdfast Bay from England
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2459319741837-06-20 Event - World Death of King William IV of England.
1837-06-21 Event - World Princess Victoria proclaimed Queen
1837-10-16 Ship Hartley arrives Nepean Bay, carrying the William Giles family
1837-10-14 BDM / Personal Maria Kleeman, nee Helm dies at sea on Solway, buried Pioneers Cemetery
https://sites.google.com/site/kipasigns/memorial-details/kleemann1837-10-15 Ship Solway, Katherine Stewart Forbes, Hartley at Nepean Bay
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1837Solway.htm1838-01-15 Ship Royal Admiral direct from Falmouth 16w 1d arrives Nepean Bay for 2 days
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2459323661838-06-10 Event - KI Governor Hindmarsh visits Kingscote Arrived on the Pelorus. Entertained by W. Giles.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article317499501838-07-14 Event - SA Governor Hindmarsh recalled replaced by Lt-Colonel George Gawler
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hindmarsh-sir-john-13151838-07-25 Ship Duke of Roxburghe en route to Holdfast Bay discharged Enoch Essex, wife and child, and a single man
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2459322331838-10-12 Event - SA George Gawler, 2nd governor arrives on 'Pestonjee Bomanjee'
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gawler-george-20851838-11-09 Ship Bengalee carrying first Prussian settlers. Then to Port Adelaide 16 Nov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengalee_(ship)
1838-12-20 Ships Prince George, Goshawk ballasting in Nepean Bay
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article317503201839 Event - SA SA Company HQ moved from Kingscote to Adelaide
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mclaren-david-24121839-02-18 BDM / Personal Samuel Giles dies age 9y, buried Pioneers Cemetery
https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=dukeofyork&view=0&pid=9128&ver=869351839-07-18 BDM / Personal Edward Hollingworth Giles dies age 8m, buried Pioneers Cemetery
https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?view=0&rand=639004826&pid=9266&userid=dukeofyork1839-10-06 BDM / Personal Col. William Light dies at Thebarton
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/light-william-23591840-01-18 Event - SA Samuel Stephens, manager SA Coy to 1837 dies from falling from horse
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stephens-samuel-26981841-05-10 Event - SA Governor Gawler recalled, replaced by George Grey until 1845 Colonization Commission bankrupt
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/grey-sir-george-21251843 Event - Australia John Ridley invented reaping machine radically changed farming methods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ridley_(inventor)1844 Event - SA Kapunda copper mining started
http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=3771845 Event - SA Burra Burra copper mining (to 1877)
http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=3771845-10-25 Event - SA Governor (until 1848) Lt-Col. Frederick Holt Robe
https://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/governors.htm1846-01-09 BDM / Personal Elizabeth Beare dies of burns, at Netley, buried West Terrace Cemetery
https://sites.google.com/site/kipasigns/memorial-details/elizabeth-beare1847 Ship 11 ton cutter William wrecked at Penneshaw Built American River c.1844 by Wm. Wilkins and Wm. Walker
http://www.sahistorians.org.au/175/bm.doc/the-aboriginal-or-black-fellow-town-kangaroo-island-jolly-30apr2018-2nd-version.pdf1848-08-02 Event - SA Governor (until 1854) "Sir Henry, E.F. Young"
https://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/governors.htm1851 Event - Australia Gold discoveries in Victoria creating labour shortage; wheat demand increased
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Australia1851 BDM / Personal Census Kangaroo Island 85 males 33 females, total 118
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article716860001851-09-12 Ship Reliance arrives, en route to Port Adelaide.
https://bound-for-south-australia.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/1851Reliance.htm1852-01-16 Event - KI Cape Willoughby lighthouse light exhibited
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/lighthouses/cape-willoughby-lighthouse1853-11-25 Shipwreck Osmali, D'Estrees Bay
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:The_Wreck_of_the_Osmanli1854 Personal - John Buick settles at American River, establishing a farm and orchard
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1895106301855-06-08 Event - SA Governor (until 1862) "Sir Richard G. MacDonnell, CB."
https://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/governors.htm1856 Event - SA South Australia became a self-governing colony ratification of a new constitution by the British parliament
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Australia1856-04-?? BDM / Personal Robert (Henry) "Governor" Wallen dies Adelaide, burial Pioneers Cemetery
https://sites.google.com/site/kipasigns/memorial-details/henry-wallen1857 Event - SA Waste Lands Act 1857 set out conditions for sale of Crown Land
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article497702121858 BDM / Personal - Samuel Reeves, son of Augustus dies, burial Pioneers Cemetery
https://sites.google.com/site/kipasigns/memorial-details/charlotte-samuel-and-augustus-reeves1858-01-27 Event - SA Torrens Title - Real Property Act 1858 reforms in registering and conveyancing freehold title of land
https://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item-sdid-43.html1859 Event - KI Faith, Hope and Charity cottages built by Charles and Michael Calnan
https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/places/hope-cottage/1859-07-13 Event - KI Cape Borda lighthouse light exhibited
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/lighthouses/cape-borda-lighthouse1860 Event - SA Wallaroo copper mining started
http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=3771860-05-21 Shipwreck Fides, nr Snug Cove
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/shipwrecks/fides-shipwreck1861-11-06 BDM / Personal Thomas Hudson Beare dies, buried Myponga.
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/history/captain-sutherland-appraisal-of-kangaroo-island1862-03-04 Event - SA Governor (until 1868) Sir Dominick Daly https://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/governors.htm
1862-10-27 BDM / Personal Harriet Granger (wife of George) dies, burial Pioneers Cemetery https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=dukeofyork&view=0&pid=8311&ver=86935
1864 Event - SA Great drought to 1867
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_South_Australian_history#1830s1869 Event - SA Strangways Act 1869 (amendment of Waste Lands Act) applied credit purchase to defined ‘agricultural areas’
http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=39621874 Land Hd Dudley proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1874 Land County Carnarvon, proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1875-12-25 Event - KI Submarine cable to Normanville project completed in 6 days
https://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/ki.htm1876-08-13 Event - KI Cape Borda to Kingscote overland cable connecting to Adelaide
https://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/ki.htm1877 Event - SA Drought
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia1877 Land Selection : Dundas, Menzies, Haines, and Cassini
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article947277361877-05-15 Shipwreck Emily Smith, South K.I.
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/shipwrecks/emily-smith-shipwreck1878 Land Hd Menzies proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1881 Event - SA Drought
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_South_Australian_history#1830s1881-05-09 BDM / Personal George Granger dies, burial Pioneers Cemetery
https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=dukeofyork&view=0&pid=8310&ver=869351882-01-13 Event - KI, Hog Bay becomes Penneshaw, Government Gazette
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article471035921882-01-20 Event - Large bush fires on K.I.
FIRES ON KANGAROO ISLAND. (1882, January 20). The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922), p. 2 (SECOND EDITION). http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2082541481882-12-28 the town of Maxwell was proclaimed. The name of the town was changed to Emu Bay in December 1941.
1883 Land Hd Haines proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1883 Event - KI New Kingscote Cemetery Pioneers cemetery ceded by SA Coy
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/research-forum/kingscote-pioneers-cemetery1884 Land Hd Cassini proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1884 Event - SA Drought and poor harvests created an economic depression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia1884 BDM / Personal John Bernard ANDERSON and George Wilson RUTHVEN Publicans of Queenscliffe Hotel.
Source: Pubs and Publicans, Bob Hoad1884-04-14 Shipwreck Mimosa, Stokes Bay
http://www.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/wreck.do?key=55931884-07-08 BDM / Personal Sarah Mary Paris (nee Chennell) wife of George dies, burial Pioneers Cemetery
https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?view=0&rand=184658148&pid=7813&userid=dukeofyork1885-06-16 Shipwreck Mars, off Western Bay
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/shipwrecks/mars-shipwreck1885-10-?? Event - KI Ligurian Bees Bill establishing a sanctuary for Ligurian bees on KI
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1708279071886 Event - SA Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1886 consolidate and amend the Law relating to Crown Lands
https://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/handle/2328/34761887-09-16 BDM / Personal Lucy Beare (nee Bull), Thomas H. Beare's 2nd wife dies, buried North Road cemetery
https://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=dukeofyork&view=0&pid=734&ver=869331888 Event - SA Drought
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia1888-01-05 Event - KI District Councils Act 1887 - District Council of Kingscote initially comprised the entirety of Kangaroo Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Council_of_Kingscote#cite_note-act-11888-06-07 Event - KI Proclamation of District Council of Dudley "severed" from the District Council of Kingscote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Council_of_Dudley1889-01-26 Shipwreck Maldon Lewis, off Point Morrison
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/shipwrecks/maldon-lewis-shipwreck1890 Proposal for erection of a Chamber for Kingscote Council. (Opened 1898)
Kelly, D. G., 1988. People and Places and Serious Business, p. 1761890-06-14 Shipwreck You Yangs, East of K.I.
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/shipwrecks/you-yangs-shipwreck1894 S.A. parliament passes Act for the franchise to women. They voted for the first time in the election of 1896.
https://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/en/About-Parliament/Women-in-Politics1895-02 Large bush fires on Kangaroo Island.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1618172401895 Population estimated at ninety souls, all told.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1098773691896 BDM / Personal Matida ANDERSON, Queenscliffe Hotel
Source: Pubs and Publicans, Bob Hoad1899 Event - World Boer War to May 1902
1899-04-24 Shipwreck Loch Sloy, Maupertius Bay
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/shipwrecks/loch-sloy-shipwreck1901-01-01 Event - Australia Federation of Australia S.A. ceased to be a self-governing colony and became a state of the Commonwealth of Australia.
1901-01-22 Event - World Death of Queen Victoria
1901-12-25 BDM / Personal John Bernard Anderson prop. Queenscliffe Hotel, dies
https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?view=0&rand=244028335&pid=11962&userid=dukeofyork1902 Event - Australia Drought
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia1902-05-30 BDM / Personal Samuel O'HARA, Queenscliffe Hotel
Source: Pubs and Publicans, Bob Hoad1902-09-09 BDM / Personal James OLDS (Jnr), Queenscliffe Hotel
Source: Pubs and Publicans, Bob Hoad1902 Flinders Obelisk erected
Kelly, D. G., 1988. People and Places and Serious Business, p. 1761903 Approval for name of Queenscliffe to revert to original name - Kingscote. [Official change in 1940]
Kelly, D. G., 1988. People and Places and Serious Business, p. 176Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 177
1903-08-09 BDM / Personal Henry AYRIS, Queenscliffe Hotel Source: Pubs and Publicans, Bob Hoad
1905 Shipwreck Loch Vennachar, between 6 Sep - 29 Sep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Vennachar1906 Land Hd MacGillivray proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1906-11-18 Shipwreck Montebello, west Stunsailboom River
https://sites.google.com/vie/kipioneersassociation/shipwrecks/montabello-shipwreck1907-10-09 BDM / Personal Matilda ANDERSON, Queenscliffe Hotel
Source: Pubs and Publicans, Bob Hoad1908 Event - SA Royal Commission (to 1911) upon the necessity for a railway through K.I.
http://sahistoryhub.com.au/places/kangaroo-island1908 Land Hd Seddon proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1908 Land Farmers and property owners. See list of names in the newspaper article
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article564655681908-09-18 Event - KI Kingscote Golf Club inaugural meeting
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1916418261908-10-03 BDM / Personal Charles Alfred ANDERSON, Queenscliffe Hotel
Source: Pubs and Publicans, Bob Hoad1909-02-18 Vice-regal visit to Kingscote by Governor-General and Lady Dudley
Vice-Regal Visit to Kangaroo Island. (1909, February 20). The Kangaroo Island Courier (Kingscote, SA : 1907 - 1951), p. 4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1916301721909 Land Hd Duncan, Hd Ritchie, Hd Newland proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1909 Event - KI Cape du Couedic lighthouse light exhibited
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/lighthouses/cape-du-couedic-lighthouse1910 Land Hd McDonald proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1910-07-05 Event - KI Floods
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2099160361914-04-08 Event - World, Start of WW1 Britain declared war on Germany
1914-1915 Event - Australia Drought "Driest in KI History"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia1915 Event - SA Settlement of Returned Soldiers ...Act 1915
https://www.archives.sa.gov.au/content/soldier-settlement-01915-07-26 Shipwreck Vera, near jetty, Cape De Couedic
https://sites.google.com/view/kipioneersassociation/shipwrecks/vera-shipwreck1918-08-28 Event - KI Ozone Hotel destroyed by fire
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2080672521919 Event - Australia Drought
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia1919-10-?? Event - Flinders Chase. After a 27-year advocacy campaign, and periodic dedication of land by the government, in October 1919 the South Australian parliament established Flinders Chase as a nature reserve on the western end of the island. Flinders Chase provides a protected environment for the island’s unique flora and fauna and a sanctuary for mainland species threatened with extinction.
http://sahistoryhub.com.au/places/kangaroo-island1922-05-20 Event - KI Kangaroo Island Football Association incorporation
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1915562421928 Telephone connection to Adelaide
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1771931 Land Hd Gosse proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1932 Event - World Great Depression Aust. unemployment record 30%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_Australia1933 Seven new leases granted in Hundreds of Duncan and Gosse
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1771934-07-19 Event - KI Penneshaw Golf Club inaugural meeting
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page215262541939 First road sealing
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1771939-01-09 Event - World WW2 Germany invaded Poland
1940 Maxwell and Emu Bay recognised as Emu Bay.
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1781945 Event - SA War Service Land Settlement Agreement Act 1945
https://www.archives.sa.gov.au/content/soldier-settlement-01947 Population 1479
http://sahistoryhub.com.au/places/kangaroo-island1951-07-26 Event - KI Soldier Settlement Scheme; Parndana established . 174 families came to live in the area, almost doubling K.I.'s population by 1954. Huge work involved in clearing the land, with Council (Burdon was overseer) laying the new roads. Last new blocks in Hd of Borda settled in 1964.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parndana,_South_Australia1954 Population 2522
http://sahistoryhub.com.au/places/kangaroo-island1960 Land Hd Borda proclaimed
http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/hundreds.html1961 Pardana oval opened. MV Troubridge service begins; end of Karatta service 50 years. Premier Playford advises dam will be built on Middle River. [opened 1964 by R. Wheaton OBE; works completed 1969]
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1791962 Proposed that EFS units acquire radios for fire control
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1791963 Anderson family leave the Queenscliffe Hotel (1878-1963)
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1791965 Event - Submarine cable laid to mainland providing electric power
http://sahistoryhub.com.au/places/kangaroo-island1966 Land bought in Kingscote for Homes for Aged
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1791968 Community farewell men leaving for Vietnam
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1791969-07-27 Reeves Point land given to Council by Roy Carter
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1791971 Acquisition of "Hope Cottage" by National Trust
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1791978 Trunk calls end on KI - all will be local
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1791979 State Emergency Services group formed
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1801981 Hurricane causes much damage to a portion of Kingscote
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1801987 Troubridge service terminated; Island Seaway service commences
Kelly, D.G.,1988. People, Places and Serious Business, p. 1801991 Event - Australia Economic slump forced farmers to diversify
http://sahistoryhub.com.au/places/kangaroo-island1996 Kingscote and Dudley Councils amalgamated to create the Kangaroo Island Council
1998 Event - KI Penneshaw reverse-osmosis seawater desalination plant
http://sahistoryhub.com.au/places/kangaroo-island2011 Population 2011 Census 4417
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